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Definition of Cutthroats
1. cutthroat [n] - See also: cutthroat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutthroats
Literary usage of Cutthroats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Parks Portfolio by United States National Park Service, Robert Sterling Yard (1921)
"Photograph by JE Haynes SI Paul Cutthroats FROM ONE TO THREE OR FOUR POUNDS ARE
TAKEN IN LARGE NUMBERS AT THE YELLOWSTONE LAKE OUTLET Copyright by Gifford ..."
2. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Robbers and Cutthroats at New-Orleans.— Horible Act of Lynch Law at St.
Louis.—Outrages attributable to Slavery.—Ad- dress of Judge Fox to the Grand Jury. ..."
3. Christian missions: their agents, their method, and their results by Thomas William M. Marshall (1862)
"If the account of Mr George Lount, a resident of Pitt river, be true, General
Kibbe and all the cowardly band of cutthroats who accompanied him should be ..."
4. The Tragedie of Macbeth: A New Edition of Shakespere's Works with Critical by William Shakespeare, Mark Harvey Liddell (1903)
"To represent the murder of Banquo by cutthroats in the gloom of a night attack
is an altogether different matter. To reject the passages, however, ..."
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